What did America mean by this?

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Woah... really makes you think...

It was a rush-job to field a 75mm gun while they worked out the kinks on a proper medium tank that could mount a 75 in a turret.

>>33027266
enemies worth fighting only come from the right

>>33027281
/thread.

>>33027266
Wow, that thing manages to shit on Grant's name more than Woodrow Wilson.

>>33027266
Field expedient and stop-gap weapons are my favorite.

>>33027286
Top kek

>>33027266
>Grant
>America

(ps- was only allied tank capable of easily destroying PIIIs, IVs at introduction)

They needed a cheese sandwich-making station so they added a sponson

>>33027266
>Stomp the shit outta Mk. IIIs and early Mk. IVs in Africa, packing the best gun in the theater in an real number
>All around a solid early-war tank
>All 4chan says about it is "lel, the Lee iz stoopid looking"

Never change /k

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>>33027266
the m3 is WAY more understandable when you see the tank it replaced.
the m2 is a veritable orgy of poor interwar design decisions
>7× (maximum 9) .30-06 Browning M1919 machine guns
>1× 37 mm Gun M3
>internal stowage for 200 rounds of 37 mm ammunition and up to 12,250 rounds of .30-caliber
>12,250 rounds of .30-caliber
>Bullet deflector plates were installed over the rear fenders.
>The idea behind these plates was that the tank could drive over a trench, and the rear sponson machine guns could then fire onto the plates; the bullets would deflect into the trench or the area directly behind the tank
>the deflector plates turned out to be useless
Coming from this, the m3 was a comforting return to sanity

>>33027266
>Oh shit, we need tanks now, just slap something together!

>>33027933
Why have I never heard of this glorious mess of terrible planning and ideas? I want to send one to the middle east just to see how many it would kill in ISIS's hands or such before being taken down...


Also that ammo storage is impressive...makes sense given how much .30 the american army had they would like to get rid of it.

>>33027760
>What are B1 bis and Somua S-35.

>>33027286
lel

>>33027760
Humm, Somua and B1 too ....

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>>33027266

American tank design wasn't the most imaginative. More about function than form.

>>33027281
the M3 was also a cost saving measure. they sold these Lend-Lease because it was cheaper to field this than the M4, since it used a good number of M2 bits

That doesn't look much worse than a Stug to be honest

>>33028326
>>33028299
>one-man turrets